Both John Hood’s column today and The News & Observer‘s editorial
take Gov. Mike Easley to task for failing to mention in his State of
the State speech Jim Black’s corruption and the ethical malaise that
plagues the General Assembly. What could possibly be the explanation
for, as Hood eloquently states, Easley thinking “that walking through a pigsty with a clothespin on his nose would make everyone else smell roses?”
Perhaps there is no clothespin, because the governor has become comfortably accustomed to the stench.
